2019 October Legends Closing October 19
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2019
Offered is a copy of a declassified document about German dictator Adolph Hitler, from the Headquarters, United States Forces European Theatre Military Intelligence Service Center, dated November 29, 1945, of a “Consolidated Interrogation Report” of “Hitler as Seen by His Doctors.” The primary contents of the field are a 55-page report on 8 ½ x 14-inch paper, two-hole punched on the left margin and bound in an 8 ½ x 14-inch brown cardboard covers. There is a second, 25-page document that is an edited version of the above report. The report was prepared by United States Military Intelligence after interrogating the Nazi leaders’ doctors at the conclusion of World War II. Primary source material is from Professor Dr. Theo Morrell, Hitler’s Personal Physician, including sketches of Hitler’s nose, cardiograms, blood tests and other reports. The first page of the report has a stamp “Jan 16, 1946 FILE”. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as dictator and leader of the Nazi Party, or National Socialist German Workers Party, for the bulk of his time in power. Hitler’s fascist policies precipitated World War II and led to the genocide known as the Holocaust, which resulted in the deaths of some six million Jews and another five million noncombatants.